Planetary motives

The husband and wife team of Joshua and Anne-Lee Gilder are a couple of latter-day Heinrich Schliemanns, and their Troy is the mysterious death of Tycho Brahe, the 16th-century astronomer. Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries is the story of that death, the events leading up to it, and the use of 21st-century...